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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
It's a made-up gender-neutral pronoun to save you from having to type he/she or him/her or risk the wrath of those who might be outed or left out of the description.
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It's not made-up; it's one of several archaic gender-neutral pronouns that TPFKADS (the poster formerly known as DebtSlave) told us about. Em was the one that caught on for FB use--probably because it's closest to the de facto gender neutral pronoun they/them/their (em instead of 'em). The original post laying out the linguistic history is still probably hanging around somewhere.
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